22) Rodolfo García-Contreras*, Leslie Nuñez-López, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, Brian W. Kwan, Javier A. Belmont, Adrián Rangel-Vega, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas K. Wood (2015) Quorum sensing enhancement of the stress response promotes resistance to quorum quenching and prevents social cheating ISMEJ 9(1):115-25. *autor corresponsal. IF: 9.66
23) Montes de Oca-Mejía M, Castillo-Juárez I, Martínez-Vázquez M, Soto-Hernandez M, García-Contreras R* “Influence of quorum sensing in multiple phenotypes of the bacterial pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum” (2015) Pathog Dis (Mar;73(2):1-4). IF 2.4 Autor corresponsal.
24) Rangel-Vega A, Bernstein LR, Mandujano-Tinoco EA, García-Contreras S J and García-Contreras R* “Drug repurposing as an alternative for the treatment of recalcitrant bacterial infections” (2015) Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 282 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00282 * autor corresponsal IF: 3.94

25) García-Contreras R*, Maeda T, and Wood TK “Can resistance against quorum-sensing interference be selected?” (2015) ISMEJ, May 29. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.84* autor corresponsal. IF: 9.66
26) Castillo-Juárez I, Maeda T, Mandujano-Tinoco EA, Tomás M, Pérez-Eretza B, Silvia García-Contreras SJ, Wood TK, and García-Contreras R* “Role of Quorum Sensing in bacterial infections”(2015) World Journal of Clinical Cases Jul 16;3(7):575-98 *autor corresponsal. IF: 1.15.
27) Bárbara García-Lara, Miguel Ángel Saucedo-Mora, Jesús Alberto Roldán-Sánchez, Berenice Pérez-Eretza, Mohankandhasamy Ramasamy, Jintae Lee, Rafael Coria-Jimenez, Melina Tapia, Victor Varela-Guerrero, Rodolfo García-Contreras* “Inhibition of quorum sensing dependent virulence factors and biofilm formation of clinical and environmental Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains by ZnO nanoparticles” *autor corresponsal (2015) Lett Appl Microbiol. 2015 Sep;61(3):299-305 IF: 1.65
28) Rodolfo García-Contreras*, Berenice Peréz-Eretza, Ricardo Jasso-Chávez, Elizabeth Lira-Silva, Jesús Alberto Roldán-Sánchez, Abigail González-Valdez, Gloria Soberón-Chávez, Rafael Coria-Jiménez, Mariano Martínez-Vázquez, Luis David Alcaraz, Toshinari Maeda, and Thomas K. Wood “High variability in quorum quenching and growth inhibition by furanone C-30 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from cystic fibrosis patients” *autor corresponsal (2015) Pathog Dis. 2015 Aug;73(6):ftv040. IF: 2.4
29) J. Pérez-Velázquez, M. Golgeli-Matur, R. García-Contreras “Mathematical Modelling of Bacterial Quorum Sensing: a review” (2016) 78(8):1585-639. doi: 10.1007/s11538-016-0160-6 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. IF: 1.38
30) Valerie W. C. Soo, Brian W. Kwan, Héctor Quezada, Israel Castillo-Juárez, Berenice Pérez-Eretza, Silvia Julieta García-Contreras, Mariano Martínez-Vázquez, Thomas K. Wood and Rodolfo García-Contreras* “Repurposing of Anticancer Drugs for the Treatment of Bacterial Infections” *autor corresponsal (2016) 17(10):1157-1176. doi: 10.2174/1568026616666160930131737 Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. IF: 3.4

31) Chowdhury N, Wood TL, Martínez-Vázquez M, García-Contreras R, Wood TK “DNA-crosslinker cisplatin eradicates bacterial persister cells” (2016) Biotechnol Bioeng. 2016 Feb 23. doi: 10.1002/bit.25963 IF: 4.12

32) Laura Fernández-García , Lucia Blasco , Maria Lopez , German Bou , Rodolfo García-Contreras , Thomas Wood, María Tomas “Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Clinical Pathogens” (2016) Toxins 8(7), 227; doi:10.3390/toxins8070227 IF 3.5

33) Martha Yumiko Cruz-Muñiz; Luis Esau López-Jacome; Melissa Hernández-Durán; Rafael Franco- Cendejas; Paula Licona-Limón; Jose Luis Ramos- Balderas; Mariano Martinéz-Vázquez; Javier A Belmont; Thomas K Wood; Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras* Repurposing the anticancer drug mitomycin C for the treatment of persistent Acinetobacter baumannii infections (2016) International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 49(1):88-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.08.022.. IF 4.1 Autor corresponsal
34) Rodolfo García-Contreras, Is quorum sensing interference a viable alternative to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections? (2016) Frontiers in Microbiology 7: 1454, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01454, Autor corresponsal IF: 4.0
35) Israel Castillo-Juarez, Luis Esaú López-Jácome, Gloria Soberón-Chávez, María Tomás, Jintae Lee, Paulina Castañeda-Tamez, Iván Ángelo Hernández-Bárragan, Martha Yumiko Cruz-Muñiz, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas K. Wood, Rodolfo García-Contreras (2016) Exploiting quorum sensing inhibition for the control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms. Curr Top Med Chem 17, 17 (1915-1927) DOI: 10.2174/1568026617666170105144104
Autor corresponsal IF: 3.4
36) García Patiño María Guadalupe, Rodolfo García-Conteras, Paula Licona-Limón (2017) The Immune Response against Acinetobacter baumannii, an Emerging Pathogen in Nosocomial Infections Frontiers in Immunology Apr 12;8:441. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00441. IF: 6.42

37) Saucedo-Mora MA, Castañeda-Tamez P, Cazares A, Pérez-Velázquez J, Hense BA, Cazares D, Figueroa W, Carballo M, Guarneros G, Pérez-Eretza B, Cruz N, Nishiyama Y, Maeda T, Belmont-Díaz JA, Wood TK, García-Contreras R (2017) Selection of Functional Quorum Sensing Systems by Lysogenic Bacteriophages in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Front Microbiol. 2017 Aug 31;8:1669. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01669.
Autor corresponsal IF: 4.25
38) Pérez-López M, García-Contreras R, Soto-Hernández M, Rodríguez-Zavala JS, Martínez-Vázquez M, Prado-Galbarro FJ, Castillo-Juárez I (2018) Antiquorum Sensing Activity of Seed Oils from Oleaginous Plants and Protective Effect During Challenge with Chromobacterium violaceum, J Med Food. 2017 Nov 27. doi: 10.1089/jmf.2017.0080. IF: 1.955
39) Kotlar I, Colonnello A, Aguilera-González MF, Avila DS, de Lima ME, García-Contreras R, Ortíz-Plata A, Soares FAA, Aschner M, Santamaría A (2018) Comparison of the Toxic Effects of Quinolinic Acid and 3-Nitropropionic Acid in C. elegans: Involvement of the SKN-1 Pathway, Neurotox Res. 2018 Feb;33(2):259-267 IF: 2.94
40) Colonnello A, Kotlar I, de Lima ME, Ortíz-Plata A, García-Contreras R, Soares FAA, Aschner M, Santamaría A. (2018) Comparing the Effects of Ferulic Acid and Sugarcane Aqueous Extract in In Vitro and In Vivo Neurotoxic Models Neurotox Res. 2018 Jun 15. doi: 10.1007/s12640-018-9926-y IF: 2.94
41) Castañeda-Tamez P, Ramírez-Peris J, Pérez-Velázquez J, Kuttler C, Jalalimanesh A, Saucedo-Mora MÁ, Jiménez-Cortés JG, Maeda T, González Y, Tomás M, Wood TK, García-Contreras R. (2018) Pyocyanin Restricts Social Cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Front Microbiol. 2018 Jun 27;9:1348. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01348. Autor corresponsal IF: 4.25
42) Trastoy R, Manso T, Fernández-García L, Blasco L, Ambroa A, Pérez Del Molino ML, Bou G, García-Contreras R, Wood TK, Tomás M. (2018) Mechanisms of Bacterial Tolerance and Persistence in the Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Environments. Clin Microbiol Rev. Aug 1;31(4). pii: e00023-18. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00023-18 IF: 17.3
43) Jiménez-Cortés JG, García-Contreras R, Bucio-Torres MI, Cabrera-Bravo M, Córdoba-Aguilar A, Benelli G, Salazar-Schettino PM (2018) Bacterial symbionts in human blood-feeding arthropods: Patterns, general mechanisms and effects of global ecological changes. Acta Trop. Oct;186:69-101. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.07.005 IF: 2.5
44) Nguyen PDT, Mustapha NA, Kadokami K, García-Contreras R, Wood TK, Maeda T. (2018) Quorum sensing between Gram-negative bacteria responsible for methane production in a complex waste sewage sludge consortium. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol.;103(3):1485-1495. doi: 10.1007/s00253-018-9553-9. IF: 3.34.

45) García-Contreras R, Wood TK, Tomás M (2019), Editorial:Quorum Network (Sensing/Quenching) of Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. | doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00080. IF: 3.52 Autor corresponsal

46) Chaitany Jayprakash Raorane, Jin-Hyung Lee, Yong-Guy Kim1, Satish Kumar Rajasekharan, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Jintae Lee (2019) Antibiofilm and Antivirulence Efficacies of Flavonoids and Curcumin Against Acinetobacter baumannii Front. Microbiol., 08 May 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00990 IF: 4.25

47) Rocio T. Pena, Lucia Blasco, Antón Ambroa, Bertha M. Gonzalez Pedrajo, Laura Fernandez-Garcia, Maria Lopez, Ines Bleriot, German Bou, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Thomas K. Wood, Maria Tomas (2019) Relationship between Quorum Sensing and Secretion systems Front. Microbiol. | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01100 IF: 4.25

48) Esau Lopez-Jacome, Rafael Franco-Cendejas, Hector Quezada, Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Israel Castillo-Juarez, Bertha Gonzalez-Pedrajo, Ana Marıa Fernandez-Presas, Arturo Tovar-Garcıa, Vanesa Angarita-Zapata, Paula Licona-Limon, Mariano Martınez-Vazquez, Rodolfo García-Contreras (2019) The race between drug introduction and appearance of microbial resistance. Current balance and alternative approaches. Current opinion in Pharmacology, 48:48–56 Autor corresponsal, IF: 5.2
49) Daniel Loarca, Danae Diaz, Héctor Quezada, Ana Laura Guzmán-Ortiz, Xochitl Abril Rebollar Ruíz, Ana María Fernández-Presas, Jimena Ramírez-Peris, Rafael Franco-Cendejas, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas Keith Wood, Rodolfo García-Contreras (2019) Seeding public goods is essential for maintaining cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Front Microbiol doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02322, Autor corresponsal, IF: 4.25
50) Araceli Blanco-Hernandez, Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras, Rosa E Sanchez-Fernandez, Mariana Palma-Tenango, Juan Cibrian-Tovar, Naybi Munoz-Cazares, R Marcos Soto-Hernandez, Daniel Padilla-Chacon, F Javier Prado-Galbarro, Israel Castillo-Juarez (2019) Assessment of antivirulence activity of essential oils against Pseudomonas aeruginosa revista fitotecnia mexicana, 42 (3), 215-225. IF: 0.33
51) R García-Contreras, TK Wood, M Tomas (2019) Editorial Drugs Re-Purposing for the Treatment of Bacterial and Viral Infections Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 13 November 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00387. Autor corresponsal IF 3.5
52) Luis Esaú LJ, Christian Rodolfo RG, Melissa HD, Claudia Adriana CC, Rodolfo GC, Rafael FC. (2019) An alternative disk diffusion test in broth and macrodilution method for colistin susceptibility in Enterobacteriales. J Microbiol Methods. 2019 Oct 30;167:105765. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105765 IF: 1.8
53) Arturo Tovar-García, Vanesa Angarita-Zapata, Adrián Cazares, Ricardo Jasso- Chávez, Javier Belmont-Díaz, Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Luis Esaú López-Jacome, Rafael Coria-Jiménez,Toshinari Maeda, Rodolfo García-Contreras (2019) Characterization of gallium resistance induced in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa cystic fibrosis isolate. Archives in Microbiology. Autor corresponsal IF: 1.6

54) Luis Esau Lopez-Jacome, Georgina Garza Ramos-Martínez, Melissa Hernández-Durán, Rafael Franco-Cendejas, Daniel Romero-Martínez, Phuong Dong Thi Nguyen, Toshinari Maeda, Bertha González-Pedrajo, Miguel Díaz-Guerrero, Daniel Loarca, Jorge Luis Sanchéz Reyes, Danae Díaz-Ramírez, Rodolfo García-Contreras. (2019) AiiM lactonase strongly reduces quorum sensing controlled virulence factors in clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burned patients. Frontiers in Microbiology. Front. Microbiol., 14 November 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02657. Autor corresponsal IF: 4.25

55) Aline Colonnello, Gabriela Aguilera-Portillo, Leonardo C. Rubio-López, Benjamín Robles-Bañuelos, Edgar Rangel-López, Samaria Cortez-Núñez, Yadira Evaristo-Priego, Alejandro Silva-Palacios, Sonia Galván-Arzate, Rodolfo García-Contreras, Isaac Túnez, Pan Chen, Michael Ashner, Abel Santamaría (2019) Comparing the Neuroprotective Effects of Caffeic Acid in Rat Cortical Slices and Caenorhabditis elegans: Involvement of Nrf2 and SKN-1 Signaling Pathways. Neurotoxicity Research. IF: 3.3

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